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Lubbock city and county leaders extended joint disaster declarations to give officials time to assess damage and apply for aid after last week’s storms.

The City Council voted to extend the city’s disaster declaration Thursday, June 13, and Lubbock County commissioners followed suit Friday morning, June 14, keeping options available for Lubbock to receive federal aid.

The declarations come as local officials ask property owners to provide reports of their uninsured vehicle and property damage by Wednesday, June 19 — hoping to reach a $960,000 county and $34.5 million state threshold to receive such aid as low interest loans, grants or matching funding.

“We may not and probably won’t get there, but we won’t know until we’ve done our due diligence,” said Clinton Thetford, the county’s emergency management coordinator.

Thetford said the county continues to tally up damage to roadways, community buildings and other county infrastructure after the storms that brought 80-plus-mph winds, downed utility poles and blew off roofs across the city.

Lubbock Power & Light initially estimated about 19,000 customers were without power at the storm’s peak, but by Friday increased that estimate to at least 27,000 — about 25 percent of the utility’s customers, spokesman Chris Sims said.

City and county infrastructure damage, along with uninsured private property damage, will go in a report the city and county will submit to the Texas Division of Emergency Management June 19.

“We’ll need to update our numbers after that, but we need to send in that initial report by next week,” Thetford said.

Residents and business owners are encouraged to fill out a damage assessment form provided by the city and county by Wednesday, according to a statement from city spokesman Jeff McKito.

The state would need at least $34.5 million in uninsured damage from the June 5 storm to be considered for federal assistance, McKito said.

The uninsured damage forms ask property owners to provide such required information as the type of structure, the level and type of uninsured damage and the address.

Residents and business owners can find the damage assessment form in room 107 at Lubbock City Hall, 1625 13th St., or download it from the city’s website, www.mylubbock.us.

Completed forms can be dropped off in City Hall room 107 or can be mailed to the city at: